Report issue from 2.3.x 2.4.x to 1.8.0

Report issue from 2.3.x 2.4.x to 1.8.0:

• CONJ-675 permit multiple alternative authentication methods for the same user (future MariaDB 10.4 feature)
• {CONJ-678] permit indication of truststore/keystore type (JKS/PKCS12), then not relying on java default type
• CONJ-378 GSSAPI: client can provide SPN
• CONJ-667 Support MYSQL_TYPE_JSON datatype
• CONJ-652 faster results buffering socket available
• CONJ-659 improve text performance reading date/time/timestamp resultset
• CONJ-670 ability to Refresh SSL certificate
• CONJ-642 disable the option "useBulkStmts" by default

Minor changes

• CONJ-628 optimization to read metadata faster
• CONJ-637 java.sql.Driver class implement DriverPropertyInfo[] getPropertyInfo, permitting listing options on querying tools
• CONJ-641 update maven test dependencies for java 10 compatibility
• CONJ-643 PreparedStatement::getParameterMetaData always returns VARSTRING as type resulting in downstream libraries interpreting values wrongly
• CONJ-623 Increase connection logging when Primary node connection fails
• CONJ-384 Add option permit having "affected" or "found" rows

Bugfixes

• CONJ-646 possible NullPointerException when connection lost to database using aurora configuration with one node
• CONJ-672 batch using multi-send can hang when using query timeout
• CONJ-544 disable SSL session resumption when using SSL
• CONJ-589 correcting Clob.length() for utf8mb4
• CONJ-649 datasource connectTimeout URL parameter is not honoured
• CONJ-650 Correction on resultset.getObject(columnName, byte[].class) when value is NULL
• CONJ-665 old MySQL (<5.5.3) doesn't support utf8mb4, using utf8 on 3 bytes as connection charset by default
• CONJ-671 MariaDb bulk threads occupy full cpu(99%) while db connections broken
• CONJ-673 abording a connection while fetching a query still does read whole resultset
• CONJ-669 SQLSyntaxErrorException when querying on empty column name
• CONJ-674 make dumpQueriesOnException = false by default as per documentation
• CONJ-616 correction on possible NPE on getConnection when using failover configuration and master is down, not throwing a proper exception
• CONJ-636 Error in batch might throw a NPE and not the proper Exception
• CONJ-624 MariaDbPoolDataSource possible NPE on configuration getter
• CONJ-622 The option "connectTimeout" must take in account DriverManager.getLoginTimeout() when set
• CONJ-621 wrong escaping when having curly bracket in table/field name
• CONJ-618 Client preparestatement parsing error on escaped ' / " in query
• CONJ-644 small optimization when validating galera connection
• CONJ-625 add coverage test
• CONJ-654 DatabaseMetaData.getDriverName() returns connector/J with a lowercase c